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A police officer has been headbutted by a laughing attacker who said getting assaulted was “part of your job”.

The assailant then spat in a nurse’s face during the incident at the Mater Hospital in North Belfast, the PSNI says.

Officers say the attack occurred at 7.30am this morning and that a man has been arrested.

Details of the incident appeared in a North Belfast PSNI Facebook post. In it, they say “a number of officers from Tennent Street went to the Mater hospital to provide assistance to someone who needed help”.

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The post adds: “As my colleagues were entering the emergency department, a 26 year old male was walking out, shouting threats towards the nursing staff as he left.

“Police officers approached him and reminded him that there were sick people in the hospital and to calm down.

“This male then headbutted a Police officer on the nose, laughing saying that getting assaulted was ‘part of your job’. Due to his aggressive behaviour, he was restrained to prevent him from causing any more injuries.

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“Unfortunately for us and the nursing staff, he wasn’t finished there. He then spat, hitting a young nurse directly in her face.

“Can you imagine going to work trying to help people, trying to make a living, doing your best to treat the sick - and someone thinks that it is acceptable to headbutt you or spit in your face and does all of this in a busy emergency department? I don’t know about you but I think that this is absolutely disgusting and should not be tolerated by anyone.”

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The police added that a male is now in custody, “arrested for assaulting two Police officers and a young nurse”.

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